| Young Men on Fire Contributor(s): Hunt, Howard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743241738 ISBN-13: 9780743241731 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: As the great American boom goes bust, four men switch on their "bunny-hunting engines" and embark on a wild tour of Manhattan's nightlife. Like "Bright Lights, Big City, Young Men on Fire" brilliantly captures the temper of the times. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002042779 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.28" W x 8.18" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As the great American boom ends, four men switch on their bunny-hunting engines and embark on a wild tour of Manhattan's nightlife. Dot-com may have fallen, but money is still washing around New York. Jim Troxler arrives in the city to meet his younger brother, Martin, a hip dot-commentator. Little does he know that Martin has planned a night out. Joining the brothers will be Big Guy, a weirdly magnetic e-content salesman, and C.C. Baxter, founder of a formerly huge online advertising agency. On the trawl from one bar to another, Jim watches Martin and his pals boozing, ingesting drugs, dancing badly, and jostling for hipness. Soon the men have picked up no fewer than five women -- two marketing chicks who speedload their cigarettes, two husband hunters, and the young, naive, and fabulous Zebra Hat Girl. Then, palming cash and talking trash, the group ends up on an enormous party boat circling Manhattan. The boat is filled with hundreds of young, sexed-up New Yorkers -- all ecstatically unaware that in four days the World Trade Center will be destroyed and their never-ending party will be over. But before then -- by the next morning -- Jim Troxler will be changed forever. Howard Hunt's Young Men on Fire is a brilliant portrait of the desires and deceptions that fueled the great American boom. At once laugh-out-loud funny and shrewdly perceptive, it introduces an exciting new voice in contemporary writing. |